10:51 PM,
Feb. 14, 2014

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A New Rochelle-based catering hall that allegedly served the equivalent of 24 shots of Hennessy to a man who later drove a car head-on into a Yonkers police cruiser and died is being sued by the two officers who were riding in the cruiser.

Both officers, identified as Gabriel Barahona and William Celestino, suffered serious injuries in the Sept. 22, 2012, incident, from which they continue to recover.

The man who the police say drank the shots, Brandon Hardy-Turner, 28, died instantly after leading officers on a chase that approached speeds of up to 87 miles per hour through the streets of ...